WITHIN the span of the nineteenth century a number of ancient and long established phenomena disappeared from the scene of Western civilization such as cavalry officers, the Holy Roman Empire and the ...
In the eighteenth century a disastrous shift occurred in the way Westerners perceived races. The man responsible was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, one of the least racist thinkers of his day.
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Russia continues to occupy the former Soviet state of Georgia, despite agreeing to a cease-fire last week. “The Caucasus is a difficult and complicated place,” one Russian political scientist told the ...
Greeks and Scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people ...
JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH, a pioneer in anthropology and craniology, was born on May 11, 1752, at Gotha. He studied medicine at Jena under Soemmering and qualified in 1776 at Göttingen, where he was ...